How AI will transform workplaces for the better

The unstoppable march of the machine passed a significant milestone last month when Google Deepmind's AI AlphaGo program beat a world grandmaster at the ancient game of Go. This feat had not been expected to be achieved for several years. The victory wasn't from a machine that was able to beat the human by sheer'brute force' – crunching a huge amount of possible outcomes in a fraction of a second (which is how IBM's Deep Blue conquered chess). AlphaGo won by using intuition; playing itself at the game millions of times and learning from its mistakes. The result has sent shockwaves through the world of technology, and it has also raised the spectre of AI replacing humans in the workplace.